Michelin Pilot Sport PS2

Great tyres but really noisy on tarmac - almost droan like in the car, didnt expect this for the price. And I think for the reason I wont buy again and try something different next time.

the most durable tyres I ever used. Quiet ones.

The PS2's delivered what I would expect in most areas from a premium brand tyre with above average grip in both the wet and dry. However, I feel that they were severely let down by the wear, and it is for this reason I would never buy them again. I just took the car in for a service and the minimum treads were measured at 2.0, 2.5, 1.6 and 2.5 after just 14,000 miles covered. I had to mount the curb (at 2 or 3 mph) when a lorry came around a corner, which resulted in a chunk of tyre being removed. I am not sure if this was due to a particularly sharp pavement, soft rubber, or the wrong angle I approached the curb at but I've not seen this before.

I feel that spending nearly £1300 on a set of tyres should last more than 14000 miles (around 5 months for me). As winter is just around the corner, I feel that I can't risk letting the tread get much lower, especially as one is already at the legal limit. Perhaps I am changing them to early, I hope my experiance helps others.

This time I am going to try the Matador MP 46 Hectorra 2, they have very good reviews so far (10 reviews to date on this site), similar to the PS2 reveiws, but at less than half the price.

I have had these on the rear of my car. In the dry I found the tyre extremely grippy, quiet and long lasting, barely wearing in the 6000 miles ive used them. In the wet they were a little slippy but gave up grip progressively and were easy to control.

I love this tyre: Michelin PS2 has it for me. After having ContiSportContact2 and Pirelli PZeroRosso's on the Lexus IS 200 compressor, the Michelin PS2's have proven to be the best tyres I have ever had on any of my cars. I drive the car regularly in the daily commute to work where it proves to be very comfortable and stable.
The part where this tyre excels over other tyres (even the PS3) is the progressiveness & consistency when losing its grip. That is a key feature to me. It announces clearly that you're overdoing it and lets go in a fashion that allows you proper and timely response. This year alone I have done over 80 laps on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife with these tyres in all kinds of conditions (wet & cold to hot & dry), and added a trackday and a drift course. On every occasion, the PS2 performed really well. The compound is out of this world: sticky all the way but it doesn't wear like a sticky tyre! Even with the textile coming out from under the rubber, the tyre keeps on going. The PS2 shows less understeer than the PZeroRosso and simply outclasses the Conti's. I have not had any punctures or other problems until now (2nd set of Michelin PS2's), whereas one of the Conti's carcass tore prematurely and the PZeroRosso's carcass showed a profound imbalance that could not be properly resolved with even loads of lead.
Drawback from the loads of grip this tyre provides, is the initial difficulty to provoke the car into drifting. That means it will not drift unless you force it to, which is a good thing for a road tyre.
The steering response is very good: changes of direction are accurate and the feel is very good. The tyres did more miles (22000mi or 35000km's) than any of my previous choices. Seen the track use and spirited driving, that's an excellent performance.
They are very pricey and had to be specially ordered, but I prefer these PS2's over the newer generation PS3. That choice is now also confirmed by Michelin by telling us the PS3 is not the successor of the PS2, but the Supersport is. But we knew that already...

They lasted 25k with mainly motorway driving and are excellent tyres, dry grip is one of the best out there but I was slightly let down with wet grip which although was good is no where near the Eagle F1A's standard.

All in all an excellent tyre but not worth £180 per corner IMHO.

Used these tyres on twisting small roads at excess speed as well on motorways at stupid speeds. SO far they have never let me down on grip.